Jere,

Thanks. What is sad is that I emailed this joke to 8 friends— 3 of them replied back in a way that reflected that they took it as something I DID get off the web. Social media has so corrupted communication on the web that something as absurd as this is commonplace and almost expected. Not good.

In the ages of civilization the period of peace and calm ( 1960-1999) have come to an end.

Donna,

If you couldn’t reg NOI, HOW did they pay for anything?

Jim coined “ultraviolence rays”

Good one!

Scicrit observed:”I’m betting money is involved.”

I won’t bet against you.

TrevAnon, FOLLOW THE MONEY! It’s always about the money, sometimes disguised as power.

FUNNY, Jim! Sadly. it’s a pretty accurate statement of their cosmology.

Scicrit, Ron lumped such into the “cannibal” pigeonhole; If you clear one, all you get is a cleared cannibal.”

money, of course.

Actually, political or anti-Trump comments are pretty rare here and I agree with Mike in that this one is just stating the allegations we know thus far in this case. I’m not gonna get my knickers in a knot over it. I prefer not to read anything political here because generally it doesn’t belong here, which is another reason why I love it here. I am able to read and enjoy the comments on this blog all the more because of the lack of people dragging politics and anti-Trump digs into the discussions or as OT comments like they do elsewhere. I’m not able to read every single comment, but IME it is pretty uncommon. I respect Mike for keeping this blog a-political, friendly, and welcoming. Honestly I don’t know if it is because Mike has asked it of everyone before I came along in 2012, or because that’s just how it is here, but it means everything to be able to come to a place where folks are respectful to each other and there isn’t a bunch of political jabbing – where I can just learn more about why the cult I came out of affects me certain ways and the latest news concerning it/its slow demise, etc. There’s a sense of peace and calm here. I am very thankful for this little spot on the interwebs.

If that qualifies as an “anti-Trump” comment, I wonder how you get through your day. Making the perfectly valid point that Bannon and Co are being prosecuted for raising funds to build a wall that they did not spend it on and wondering why there is such a double standard for religions is hardly “anti-Trump.” It’s the current administration’s US attorney doing the prosecuting. If this offends your sensibilities so terribly, it makes me wonder how you get through the day.